For details of the French efforts see _Les Responsabilites de la Defense rationale_, by H.Genevois; also _The People's War in France, 1870-1871_, by Col.

L.Hale (The Pall Mall Military Series, 1904), founded on Hoenig's _Der Volkskrieg an der Loire_.] Leon Gambetta had leaped to the front rank at the Bar in the closing days of 1868 by a passionate outburst against the _coup d'etat_, uttered, to the astonishment of all, in a small Court of Correctional Police, over a petty case of State prosecution of a small Parisian paper.

Rejecting the ordinary methods of defence, the young barrister flung defiance at Napoleon III.

as the author of the _coup d'etat_ and of all the present degradation of France.

The daring of the young barrister, who thus turned the tables on the authorities and impeached the head of the State, made a profound impression; it was redoubled by the Southern intensity of his thought and expression.